Barbara Gowdy

Author of The White Bone and We So Seldom Look on Love.

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“Barbara Gowdy has quietly become the country’s best writer.”

Toronto Life

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“One of the best writers in Canada or anywhere.”

The Montreal Gazette

After a ten-year absence the award-winning, internationally celebrated author of The White Bone and Helpless returns with a ground-breaking novel about intimacy and consciousness, and the possibility of forgiveness.

Barbara Gowdy

Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels, all of which have met with widespread international acclaim. A three-time finalist for The Governor General’s Award, two-time finalist for The Scotia Bank Giller Prize, The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, winner of the Marian Engel Award and The Trillium Book Prize, Gowdy has been longlisted for The Man Booker Prize. She has been called “a miraculous writer” by the Chicago Tribune, and in 2005 Harper’s magazine described her as a “terrific literary realist” who has “refused to subscribe to worn-out techniques and storytelling methods.” Born in Windsor, Ontario, she lives in Toronto.